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14 —THE NELSON MAIL Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Quality Used Cars
Buy Honda from Honda.
Bowater Honda
82 Achilles Ave
Phone: 548 7179
After Hours: Nick 027 443 6777
www.bowaters.co.nz/honda
12 Honda Euro Civic L $32,995
1.8 L auto Topaz Yellow, 8112kms,
leather magic seats, spot lights 17”
alloys, 6.7l per 100kms ex demo
12 Honda Euro Civic S $32,995
1.8 L, Alabasta Silver, ex demo, cloth
velour trim 2758km
08 Honda Jazz $16,995
1.3 L Cvt, facelift, 24892 kms,
2 local owners, last od CVT models
(very popular)
11 Honda Accord Euro $37,995
2.4L I –Vtec, Granite, full leather,
sunroof, 8 way electric seat
adjustment, xenon headlights
10 Honda Jazz1.3s Auto $19,995
1.3l auto, silver, 23,008km, one owner,
full service history, magic seat system,
climate air conditioning, 6 airbags,
extremely spacious
11 Honda CRZ SR $29,999
1.5l, 5254km. ex demo, 4.7l/100km, sport,
normal and econ driving modes, cvt,
intergrated motor assist, usb jack
12 Honda CRV Sport in $43,995
2.4 L auto, 18300kms, 1 local owner,
Twilight Blue, leather, towbar, heated
seats sunroof, reversing camera
6040472AA
08 Honda Civic 1.8 s sport $21,995
1.8l, 5 speed auto, one local owner from new, full
service history, factory spoiler kit, 6 airbags, ABS
brakes, VSA, traction control, 6.5l/100km, cruise
control, AUX input, climate air conditioning
Driver’s feats bigger than the jandal
David Long
Racing more important: Scott McLaughlin, who ‘‘gave it some jandal’’ in Adelaide last month.
Photo: FAIRFAX NZ
Scott McLaughlin may be
regarded as the brightest star in
the V8 Supercars series, but for
all that he’s achieved behind a
steering wheel, it was the 13
words he said after claiming a
podium spot in Adelaide last
month that took his fame to
astronomical levels.
‘‘I just plucked it in first, gave it
some jandal and f... yeah,’’
McLaughlin said on live
television across Australia and
New Zealand.
It showed how emotional the
20-year-old McLaughlin was after
pulling off such a sensational
result in his Volvo, which also
left everyone bemused on the
other side of the Tasman, because
they refer to the aforementioned
footwear as ‘‘thongs’’.
Since then, jandals have been
synonymous with McLaughlin.
Volvo has produced commemora-
tive pairs and the day Fairfax
visited McLaughlin at the factory
of Garry Rogers Racing in Mel-
bourne, he had a pair of jandals
on. However, it is getting to the
point that McLaughlin would like
to turn the attention back toward
what he does in a car rather than
what he’s wearing on his feet.
‘‘A lot of people have kept going
with it, I’ve tried to stop it a bit,’’
McLaughlin said.
‘‘A lot of the Kiwi drivers say
that kind of stuff; it was just at
the right moment, so now I’m
called the jandal boy.’’
McLaughlin says he has had
plenty of companies contact him
since that weekend in Adelaide,
looking to cash in on the jandal
quote by bringing out some
memorabilia.
‘‘It feels weird because I came
second, I didn’t even win the race,
but it’s very cool for me to have
made a bit of history in V8s with
it.’’
But the history McLaughlin is
more interested in creating is
around what he does on the race
track and he’s done a fair bit of
that already.
He is the youngest driver in V8
Supercars history to win a race
and two weeks ago in Winton he
became the youngest to claim a
pole position.
It is remarkable what
McLaughlin’s achieved and he is
set to be this country’s biggest
motor racing star since Scott
Dixon, especially if he eventually
ends up moving to the American
Nascar series, which he has
hinted at doing, one day.
Garry Rogers Motorsport is not
up there with Ford Performance
Racing, Red Bull or the Holden
Racing Team in terms of budget
and resources, but it does have a
staff of around 40 people who are
passionate about what
McLaughlin and his Swedish
team-mate Robert Dahlgren are
doing.
With all that, though, comes
pressure, and McLaughlin feels
the responsibility on him to
deliver.
‘‘It’s huge,’’ he said. ‘‘The
reason why it was so emotional at
Clipsal [Adelaide] when we came
second was that I knew how
much the guys had worked. Not
just the guys at the track, but
those that stay at home, too.
‘‘You feel a responsibility to go
good and not crash the car,
because you know how much
work it puts on the guys and
takes them away from their
families, and that makes you
nervous.’’
Being so young, it wouldn’t be
surprising if McLaughlin felt too
intimidated to tell the team’s
experienced mechanics about the
changes he wants to make to his
car, but he says that is never an
issue.
Fairfax NZ